composer

“Concealment of his own life,” Mr. Worthen writes of Brahms, was something the composer actively desired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In addition to Mosaku’s Academy Award nomination for supporting actress, “Sinners’” Oscars haul included wins for filmmaker Ryan Coogler, star Michael B. Jordan, cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw and composer Ludwig Göransson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

US composer Sondheim and playwright James Lapine created the original musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1984.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

A ghostly montage of the Twin Towers being constructed, set to composer Michael Nyman’s “Fish Beach,” brought New Yorkers to tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Artists like Bandalos Chinos, Alex Anwandter and Zoé are really great composers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The track was produced with Egyptian composers Tamer Sakr and Wahid El-Meligy, as well as the multiplatinum Puerto Rican producer Eliel Lind Osorio, who is credited on hit songs “Dile” and “Hasta Abajo.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Pulitzer that Marsalis won in 1997 for his two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, “Blood on the Fields,” was historic: since the jury started honoring music in 1943, they’d never recognized jazz, only classical composers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

For his part, Noseda has done an exceptional job in championing major Black composers at home and on record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

He was a genius other composers slavishly followed for well over half a century, yet to most modern listeners he is just a name, alongside his colleague Brahms.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall